e is represented sitting upon a throne, crowned with a mitre full of
small orbs, to intimate his superiority over all the globe. The gourd
upon the mitre implies his action and influence upon moisture, which,
and the Nile particularly, was termed by the Egyptians, the efflux of
Os{=i}ris. The lower part of his habit is made up of descending rays,
and his body is surrounded with orbs. His right hand is extended in a
commanding attitude, and his left holds a _thyrsus_ or staff of the
_papyrus_, pointing out the principle of humidity, and the fertility
thence flowing, under his direction.

AESCULAPIUS. The name of AEsculapius, whom the Greeks called {Asklepios},
appears to have been foreign, and derived from the oriental languages.
Being honored as a god in Phoenicia and Egypt, his worship passed into
Greece, and was established, first at Epidaurus, a city of Peloponnesus,
bordering on the sea, where, probably, some colonies first settled; a
circumstance sufficient for the Greeks to give out that this god was a
native of Greece.

Not to mention all we are told of his parents, it will be enough to
observe, that the opinion generally received in Greece, made him the son
of Apollo by Cor{=o}nis, daughter of Phlegyas; and indeed the
Messenians, who consulted the oracle of Delphi to know where AEsculapius
was born, and of what parents, were told by the oracle, or more properly
Apollo, that he himself was his father; that Cor{=o}nis was his mother,
and that their son was born at Epidaurus.

Phlegyas, the most warlike man of his age, having gone into Peloponnesus
under pretence of travelling, but, in truth, to spy into the condition
of the country, carried his daughter Cor{=o}nis thither, who, to conceal
her situation from her father, went to Epidaurus: there she was
delivered of a son, whom she exposed upon a mountain, called to this day
Mount Titthion, or _of the breast_; but before this adventure, Myrthion,
from the myrtles that grew upon it.

The reason of this change of name was, that the child, having been here
abandoned, was suckled by one of those goats of the mountain, which the
dog of Aristh{)e}nes the goat-herd guarded. When Aristh{)e}nes came to
review his flock, he found a she-goat and his dog missing, and going in
search of them discovered the child. Upon approaching to lift him from
the earth, he perceived his head encircled with fiery rays, which made
him believe the child to be of divine origin.

As {Korone}